Was short on time, didn't do any warmup sets. Don't think it mattered too much since weights are not heavy right now.

I typically do dips on "A" days (ie Squat/Bench/Row day) and pullups on "B" days (ie Squat/OHP/Deadlift day), but I got confused and accidentally did pullups instead and didn't realize it until after the fact. No biggie, I'll just do dips Wednesday.

Thanks capt! I'm annoyed with myself at having to reset my weights for taking breaks from weightlifting, but it is what it is. Looking forward to next month when things get challenging again. About the PLP workouts...when they're on the same day as a stronglifts workout I make sure to do them at least 6 hours afterwards so I'm fresh. I don't manage the pullups all in one set. For instance, last night I did 10, took about 45 seconds, did 8, took about 30 seconds, and did 2 for a total of 20. For lunges, 20 means 20 with each leg, so it's really like 40 total reps. It's a little extra stimulation for me while I wait for StrongLifts to get challenging again. I cut my caloric intake at new year, hoping to shed some fat. I haven't measured with calipers and such yet since then (will do that at the end of the month) but I have dropped a couple pounds, which I'm hoping is mostly fat. When the weights get tough I will start increase calories and go back to bulking mode and just try to deal with whatever fat adds on I guess.

Its great you are adding a lot of Body-weight exercises to the workout as well for the overall development , I am already lifting my maxes as of now so i am avoiding going into anything extra but i am thinking about adding Push Ups every non-lifting day just to get some extra simulation for chest , My chest sucks big time you cant really tell if i even working out if you just go by my chest and that when i am benching 60kgs .

Squats: started to feel a slight bit of wonkiness on the inside of my left knee in between sets of squats. Not sure what's going on there, but I will look into it.

OHP: First failure on this most recent reset of StrongLifts. Same weight that I had my first failure on my original start of StrongLifts last summer. Interestingly, I looked at my journal for that day and it was the exact same reps as last time too: 5/5/4/4/3. If history repeats itself I will get all 5 sets of 5 next Wednesday Thinking optimistically. I also need to start eating more. I'm down about 5 pounds since the new year. I don't think I can get away with that anymore if I want to keep progressing. Whatever fat may come, my goal this year is to get strong. Maybe leanness can be for 2014...we'll see.

Knees have been fine while I'm squatting, but occasionally at random points in the day I'll feel that little wonkiness on the inside of my left knee still. I think I just need to be better a better a stretching/foam rolling routine. I've basically just been neglecting that component completely and I think things are just starting to tighten up on me. Yesterday's squats were at bodyweight (170 lb).

Just as I predicted, I was able to breeze through all 5 sets of 5 reps on Overhead Press. I even felt like I plenty left in the tank. Funny how that works.

On deadlifts I feel like I'm not doing enough work or something. Maybe I'll throw in more warmup sets. I was able to maintain the double overhand grip for the last set but I definitely felt like it was severely slipping. I guess time to get serious about grip work. I did try to hold the bar extra long after the last rep - made it about 10 seconds.

Bench I feel is still easy.

I'm going to start adding weight back to dips again next time.

I think last Fall the furthest I got was workout 31 which I will reach again a week from next Monday (2/11) - so looking forward to passing that milestone when I get there.

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